what about the kids my kids their friends live in those partment those houses we don't know about them. as the search and rescue operation continues after the devastating explosion at a fertilizer plant in texas questions behind many hidden dangers america's crumbling infrastructure has in store. and high speed race for right the government unleashes its force on pro-reform demonstrate his environment just ahead of the morning only one gram for a while activists try to make their voices heard against all the old.

hello welcome good to have you company watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow now venezuela's electoral body has announced an audit of the remaining votes demanded by the opposition leader only kick a pretty less this just hours before the swearing in of the country's president elect nicolas maduro the narrow victory over could be divided the country sparking large scale demonstrations well let's not get the latest from artie's tessa cilla he's in caracas this audit what exactly does it mean. you know well we see right after unseen election about sixty four percent of the machines have been audited so now the local council is offering is the maintaining forty six percent of voting machines that have not been audited will be audited to work for let's make a difference between an actual vote by vote count or manual voting this would also demand that the opposition have been making up before their very staunch if they

want to the full recount all over the supreme court justice schieffer already come out of one state to say that it wasn't it wasn't possible to this is the auditing of the machines that we can subpoena for just come out and said that he accepted the offer but he says that the only thing houses including registers ballots and finally accept fingerprints so basically pink is coming out and saying all right he is accepting this offer by the electoral committee full bottles recount that has been already rejected for voting matter recount has there been any reaction on the streets of the mine well right now a complete system of heating and you don't need so many urgent supporters not to go out into the street far as that's concerned in songs early early the first few days after the end result of some fireworks on the streets clearly government calls but other people have died in those or violent or in the streets so the businesses come out and said to the supporters not to grab anyone comes out it just means they're

not part of this campus or not we don't see any protest from the streets and. support insisting on if i can just make some noise so hopefully there will be any more violence without seeing that right now and we'll see the reaction of the supporters. of this news comes out and you believe that the integration of nicolas maduro will then go ahead as judge you for friday. it seems that where you are do a lot of preparation but we're going to help me we've seen security. there we can't he don't. think of all the regulations for how it will feel like it could be going ahead of schedule awfully. quick and lucky they were not racially coming in so he didn't help and got to go now ok we'll leave it there thank you tess of us are still alive from caracas so you have

you know where a gunman is at large after a shooting a police officer at the massachusetts institute of technology police are pursuing the shooter and have urged to stay indoors the shooting took place just days after a series of explosions at the annual boston marathon killed three people and injured one hundred eighty the investigation continues with authorities releasing photographs of two individuals wanted in connection with the blasts. a search and rescue mission is underway in the texan town of west where a violent explosion ripped through a fertilizer plant leaving up to fifteen people dead and injuring over one hundred sixty the exact number of casualties and those missing is yet to be determined artie's lamon galindo reports from the scene. several police departments from around texas cordoned off a large area around the fertilizer plant which exploded last night at about seven thirty local time now i just came back from one of the local hospitals which

admittedly nearly one hundred people who were injured in the explosion last night overall we know that more than one hundred sixty people were hurt in the blast right now there have been good for unpaid televisa however we haven't gotten a new casualty count recently given the fact that this is still a search and rescue mission we did speak to one woman earlier who was slightly wounded during the explosion she lived in the vicinity of the blast her family was ok but so many of her friends she did not know the whereabouts sweet about the kids my kids their friends live in those apartments those houses we don't know about them we don't know about some of the father or friends if so what happened during school hours i mean it's still bad if the kids were in school it was real close by so many first responders digging through the rubble this morning still hoping to

find survivors in a neighborhood which has been described as a war zone i can tell you i was there i walked through the blast area i searched some houses earlier tonight massive just like iraq just like the murray building in oklahoma city same kind of exploded so you can imagine what kind of damage we're looking out there. i know there was at least seventy five to fifty fifty to seventy five houses damaged there's a partner complex that has about fifty units in it that was completely. just skeleton standing investigation is still underway for the root cause meanwhile the police and firefighters are still searching the rubble near the fertilizer plant. well the blast has caused many to question whether basic industrial safety regulations are being ignored in the states the plant reported that it only held around twenty four kilograms of and hydrous ammonia far less than the twenty tons

that's believed to have been ignited in the report stated there were no fire or explosive risks the worst possible scenario it in visit was a ten minute release of ammonia gas but without any casualties but this blast shook has is around eighty kilometers away resulting in a rising number of injuries and deaths artesian reported as more. it's no secret that the crumbling infrastructure in the u.s. is considered one of the largest dangers to national security over the past four years if not more of the american society for civil engineers has given the greed d. plus to america's infrastructure that is an indication underscores how how most of the bridges the tunnels the airports the levees that list goes on and on are so decrepit and the problem is is that washington is not investing its resources into rebuilding america's infrastructure while over the past ten plus years america has

invested hundreds of billions of dollars into surveillance systems into go department of homeland security into c.c.t.v. cameras and systems of facial recognition they do that under the auspices of keeping american safe they have neglected to invest the money that is necessary to build up america's infrastructure and that infrastructure extends to the amount of inspectors that are available to go into facilities such as the fertilizer facility that exploded in texas in west texas and examine it and to make sure the proper repairs are taking place there's not enough funding that's being allocated to to have the proper means for the infrastructure of the u.s. be it rebuild it or be it you know making sure that it's up to par look it could be texas that we're talking about at this moment or last month we were talking about the oil spill in arkansas or last year we're talking about new york and new jersey

in the tri state area going dark because of hurricane sandy or the year before that when we're talking about other failures of infrastructure being bridges collapsing or pipes exploding this is a situation that's considered the biggest danger to national security and it's a danger it's a situation that most environmentalist and janine years say that officials in washington are ignoring. dr jeffrey patterson he's a professor at the school of medicine when sconce university he thinks that lax federal regulation is to blank there's been this montreaux that we have to deregulate we have to take away regulation so business can thrive and obviously we see examples like this or fukushima for example where when we do that we suffer the consequences in the end and so i think and we're seeing it with the environmental protection agency today where they are promulgating new regulations

if there is a mother to push a murder trial that will allow all of the clean up to be much more lax than it currently is and not force people to be moved out of the area because of radiation damage so there's this tremendous move. to to deregulate things to take away the powers of the e.p.a. and other regulatory agencies and i think that's a we're seeing now that that's a very dangerous precedent. well head to our web site at r.t. dot com to get the latest updates and analysis of this developing story and you can also watch footage from the scene on our you tube channel. and coming up later in the program the digital privacy debate is recounted in america a controversial cybersecurity bill it is one step closer to the goals. he's got a year. and we're going to germany face

mounting hurdles with many saying they're foreigners are flooding in to simply live off the welfare state all the details in a few minutes. clashes have erupted in bahrain ahead of sunday's formula one grand prix police fired tear gas to disperse protesters in isolated areas across the country earlier two teenagers were sentenced to ten years in prison and were allegedly tortured by interrogators before they confessed to attacking police during antigovernment riots human rights watch also says mass police officers detained twenty opposition activists last week in times navy f one circuit without warrant rights activists say there are massive human rights violations in the gulf want to keep the government denies discriminating against its own people but anti regime protesters say the state is on the path to becoming a sunni dictatorship all right in his home to the u.s.

his fifth fleet and is run by almost daily violence where even doctors are arrested for helping injured protesters. let's take a closer look at some of the figures put out by amnesty international since twenty eleven clashes between authorities and demonstrators have seen seventy two people killed on both sides the number of arrests made last year of those participating in rallies top one thousand and top of that at least eighty children under eighteen are being held in adult prisons that are notorious for their torture interrogations yet the bahraini government labors hard to improve its image it recently spent over thirty two million dollars on public relations firms. bahrain's leading human rights defender is not being of a job he was imprisoned in two thousand and twelve three year is calling for participating in illegal gatherings but later how the sentence reduced the verdict really intense criticism both from bahrain's western allies as well as many human

rights groups inability jobs being and i've spoken supporter of the demonstrations that began two years ago calling on the country's ruling monica to introduce democratic reforms just before his arrest we can expand to june in the sunshine to chant had a chance to interview him for the program he did for our channel party boyko caught up with his songe in london for more not long before his imprisonment bahrain's most famous human rights campaigner was in london talking to another prominent activist and whistleblower julian a sauna so we came here to london's ecuadorian embassy which the wiki leaks founder has been calling home for some ten months now in order to have a chat about the man at the forefront of bahrain's pro-democracy struggle i began by asking afghans why he was so keen to invite me to be over a job for an interview on his exclusive r.t. show braid has nine hundred thousand people who has one hundred fifty

thousand twitter followers or is predominantly all the population of earth. since the risk of a number of other activists and brain screen. trying to present a difference of rights was the most prominent voice for the. speaking to julian assange over job was unequivocal about his determination to fight for democracy in bahrain if you have a goal and if you believed. just tools you'll. lose your will to your. difficulties and you know that. it changes that you are fighting for its being good four hundred years is not an easy thing to change to achieve those changes you have to be willing to pay a. price might be your life for that price has become is

freedom three months after that interview was that he was sentenced to three years behind bars but according to a staunch keeping him in prison on the current charges it's going to be increasingly difficult for the bahraini government to cartoonish former despotism where he's been sentenced to three years imprisonment for a number of tweets. into your personal stories to the prime minister and so on as well as well when i see it he even when he was imprisoned briefly released he did not resign only to the same standard for criticizing you for a t.v. it's hard for people with that much coverage you can't. you can't be proud so i think it's long term prospects accorded good amnesty international have labeled him a prisoner of conscience but unless the international community wakes up to abuses

in bahrain there's little hope that maybe over jobs going to be tasting freedom any time soon. see london's ecuadorian embassy. on say use of work closely with to be a lot of jobs when he headed the bahrain center for human rights he says that even though being an activist in bahrain is no joke the jobs followed is already to take up his ban it. now he's in jail and this is to go get both of you but i do wish you'd behave and send the message to the one hundred people to be proud of what we have and they are not to shout it's our lives to be able to buy it it's thinking there are many here but i can give even if they were just maybe here but i think it is and if they give this will come it will be god i know we have sixty. six activists behind but one of them getting so i think of what i mean by becoming a human rights activist in mistook it easy to go take your you need to get their

shit but if you like them to. go for example they're going to have actually been your you don't that didn't go about their human rights situation and then he was it was that. i did good because they could take it to their body started to use it to become human i think you could sing about it. and we will be closely following the f one race in the turbulent gulf kingdom in the coming days in the meantime you can always check our website to find out more about an appeal the job and the history of the bahraini protest movement. monarchy fueling slain civil unrest and activist in pole position gridlocked know all the noise asians was involved with the right to be seen to be credible. when there bureaus are the simplest formula for controversy burning rubber on the streets of bahrain checkered flag ship weekend on our team. now egypt's president morsi and

a ministerial delegation are in russia talking business with president vladimir putin and in the reports from the city of sochi. this is the first visit by an elected egyptian president to russia and among issues such as bilateral cooperation in the sphere of investment as well as tourism because egypt remains one of the prime location for russian holidaymakers to visit while on vacation of course there are other issues which will be discussed by president putin and president morsi in this other resorts among those items well before speed the mediation of peace in the middle east both countries are extremely interested in maintaining a stability and a cool librium in the region and that unfortunately has not been the case as of late of course egypt itself has been under fire for the last week and a half due to the violence which has been happening in the country surrounding coptic christians and that has been one of the primary issues which mohamed morsi has promised to address while in his position as the leader of egypt gyptian

government is obviously seems to be putting a lot of effort into presenting its image as a stable and determined entity to the world which we're seeing right now in sochi. a quick look now at other news from around the world at least twenty seven people have died and dozens injured in a suicide bombing in the iraqi capital the blast in a cafe destroyed part of a shopping center complicating rescue work as police trying to pull victims from under the dead bridge no group has yet claimed responsibility for the bombing audience has been on the rise in the country ahead of the provincial elections scheduled for saturday. the u.s. military's muslim advisory guantanamo bay says the ongoing mass hunger strike there will lead to the death of detainees officials say many of the captives who've been starving themselves for two and a half months have perfected their methods to suicide and are willing to die the hunger strike began in protest as alleged mistreatment by prison guards and the

indefinite detention some detainees have been in for more than a decade the military says fifty nine inmates have now joined the strike with the fifteen being force fed lawyers claim the figures are much higher. but lower house the u.s. congress has passed a controversial bill that many say puts digital freedoms under fire the cyber intelligence sharing and protection act would allow private firms to share the personal data of web pieces with u.s. government agencies one of the all makers who voted for the bill cited monday's deadly boston bombing as a pretext but the white house has hinted it may be that legislation which it feels doesn't address public concerns about the invasion of privacy r.t. american producer andrew blake is following the controversy. did pass the house today and going to have to move on to the senate and show these u.s. senators to agree to advance it like the house did today and send it over to the white house it's an up to president obama to in his name to it and then from there

we have cispa however just earlier this week top aides for the white house actually said that we will recommend the president veto this legislation to sever intelligence of sharing and protection act it has come under a lot of criticism by its opponents because they say that it does more than what the authors say it does now the authors of cispa they say that this bill will lead to businesses private companies google facebook and any internet provider these companies will be encouraged to share information with the federal government that will be used to track down and monitor and curb cyber attacks aimed at the united states computer critics say that it puts too much of americans privacy at risk and that the right safeguards aren't there so in turn people would be separate facing their privacy for a little bit of security when the bill is introduced back in february i believe one of the areas for the second time representative or one of the authors of the bill he said you know we can't have another nine eleven we can't have another terrorist

attack it but if we do we will pass any law that needs to happen sure enough to another congressman he actually got up and said well look what happened in boston these were bombs sure they weren't digital bombs but the next ones will be digital bombs so we need to come together for the sake of national security and do something and that's exactly why a lot of people have problems with this bill because the people who are touting it the people who are writing it are people that don't really understand the cyber security concerns and there's a lot of concern over who is coming up with this bill who is supporting it and what they actually know about cyber security. incident this morning saying that you know boston would be reason enough to pass a cyber security bill is laughable to many people. germany is moving towards easing restrictions for people from outside the e.u. to find a job in the country but with immigration already at a decade's long high some germans say they're frustrated with the influx of people they say prefer to live on welfare rather than salary artie's peter all of a got both sides of the debate in berlin those coming to germany in

search of a new life might find one of their biggest challenges in the shape of the german people a bertelsmann foundation poll shows two thirds of people here view new comers as a burden on society one of those is coal schmidt he says he knows families who come from outside of the e.u. as many as five children who live in the state presently. the main performance which you have to bring to stay in germany you have to make children if you have no drop in germany and if and normal social threat is hundred square meters in five children you get another three thousand euros that month social eight call runs a motor scooter hire company in berlin and claims to represent many upset at what they see as a free ride given to migrants. if i would live in africa and i

hear that and i see that my friend of mine of mine is already in bali and we value of facebook how he is living then i would say oh well i go to bernie and as soon as possible immigration here is a twenty year high with a further two million expected to arrive within the next three years along with traditional settlers from turkey the bulk of that number will come from with in sight the e.u. as the jobless countries like spain and greece look for better opportunities in the much wealthy in north as the mediterranean situation worsens wealthier countries like germany are a magnet to provide work for their fellow citizens but even those who weren't even born in germany worry about the influx. i came here in one thousand nine hundred four but now there are so many immigrants in germany who are not working not doing

anything this leads to problems delivered better than those who actually work. but those in the turkish community insist it's not easy. we. sometimes have an immigrant status as an obstacle to get a good job which leads to a lack of prospects and in some cases people turn to crime this is not the majority how to handle surging immigration numbers or even the perception that they're draining society is going to prove harder for leaders to avoid there's a general election here just five months peter all of a. it makes her not say martha makes mincemeat out of the mainstream media in brighton the same.

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don't want to be clear about to just you never seen anything like that until. they got inside and abby martin and this is breaking the set i'm sure you've heard by now but the massive explosion that nearly flatten the small town of west texas the blast was the result of a fire at a fertilizer plant killing dozens of people and injuring or one hundred sixty others and the firefighters rushed to put out the flames or were unable to stop the fire from reaching containers holding dangerous chemicals what followed was a massive explosion that some clearly damaged over fifty homes and buildings pools and a nursing home for many of you by the tragedies this week just so you know there's no factual basis that indicates this blast was intentional today a search is underway for survivors and missing persons in the debris as many as

fifteen people are still unaccounted for among them firefighters and first responders are continue to watch the story reported. elements i'm told that my heart goes out to all those affected by the disaster for now it's fair to say. that as well as highly anticipated elections were held this past sunday the closest vote the country's seen in forty years nicolas maduro political era to late president chavez was proclaimed president after an aggressive season of campaigning the close margin as probably the opposition party of a to retake a plea that is to call for peaceful street protests a recount of the vote and now in a tragic development seven deaths have been reported in relation to the protests with the door open using the opposition of stirring up violence and of course the u.s. government is now out in their two cents a second.